Survivor (tv program)

Note: The following contains spoilers for this week's already aired episode of "Survivor" Max Dawson, the former Northwestern University professor so obsessed with the CBS reality series "Survivor" that he taught a class on it, was voted off on Wednesday's episode. Apparently his extensive research and knowledge about the show did not help him stay beyond the fourth week. This season has the contestants divided into a blue collar tribe, the white collar tribe (of which Dawson was a member) and the no collar tribe, with some cross-tribal mingling, much of it to Dawson's disadvantage. "The debate tonight is between Max and Shirin,"...

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